Posted on 08/25/2019 7:03:03 AM PDT by marshmallow
AMMAN, Jordan - Groups representing Christians in northeast Syria are appealing for prayer, fearful that Turkey plans to make good its numerous threats to invade the region with its military forces.
Since November 2018, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch a large military operation east of the Euphrates River to “clear Kurdish terrorists” from the area. Syriac Christians view it as a pretext to enter more of Syria in a bid to change the northeast’s demographic of Kurds and Christians, just as Turkey did in Afrin, Syria, in March 2018.
The Christians’ appeal was issued by the Syriac National Council of Syria, the Syriac Union Party, and the American Syriac Union. It was made available to Catholic News Service Aug. 15.
Turkey has “massed its army and allied jihadists along the border. Even though the U.S. and French armies are present in northeast Syria, we know that Turkey will attack and destroy us,” the three Syriac Christian groups said. They are appealing to U.S. leaders to intervene on their behalf to aid the 100,000 Christians in the region who they say are at risk.
They warned that Turkey and its jihadist allies, including fighters from al-Qaida and Islamic State, could carry out “a massacre just as they did in Afrin (northwest Syria) in 2018, when the churches of Afrin were burned and the Christians and Yazidis there were hunted down. In northeast Syria, it would be much worse and destroy many more people.”
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Prayers for protection against the jihadist scum.
Prayers up!
On a side note...I grew up in a neighborhood of Greek and Arab Christians, most of whom were second generation refugees from muslin-controlled lands.
I loved that neighborhood, with its delightful ethnic restaurants, aromatic spice markets, exquisite churches, and neat little yards. Even though it was a working-class neighborhood in Boston, nobody was afraid to go out at night. And everyone flew the Stars and Stripes because they were happy to live in the USA.
Years later, an Arab teenager in Hevron told me that he wished that he lived THERE instead of the West Bank. It seemed that word had gotten out!
The neighborhood is no longer like that, as it has become very gentrified and “ghey”.
Oh well. Life goes on.
Whenever a Christian is oppressed or murdered, a Democrat is filled with joy.
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